Toadstool demise????

I went out of town for 6 days and when I returned my toadstool frag had shrunk to almost nothing. It looks like a frag plug with a booger on it. The crazy part is my pink birdsnest, and peach digitata were showing amazing growth since being gone. How can my sps be doing great and the softie melt away? I'm beginning to think my water is too clean. My xenia has not been happy lately as well.

Salinity 1.025
ph 8.2
alk 8.1 (hanna checker)
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
phosphate 0.00 (hanna checker)
calcium 400

 

dude its fine.. its prolly just about to shed its skin... you will be fine..just let it chill, dont mess with it..

if all your other coral is fine.. and your toad was fine when you left.. good chance your toad is still fine,,, without a pic its hard to tell

but my money is on its about to shed

 

theres nothing left to shed

 

post a pic of it..

my toad shrinks up a good bit, mostly at night, during the day its cap is about 7" and stalk is about 4"

at night he shrinks to where he is about the size of a golfball, maybe a touch bigger, but not much.

 

I have the same issue, there doeant seem to be a happy medium in an established tank. Might be time for you to make a decision...

 

look at this video at 1:00 and see what it did look like a few weeks back
YouTube - ‪90 Gallon Bowfront at 3 months‬‏

here's what it looks like now

 

My tank is only 4 and a half months old.

And by making a decision, I'm guessing you mean pick which way to go. SPS dominated, or a mix reef???

 

Is there any rotting or decaying tissue?For no bigger than he is,he could shrink up that much when shedding or unhappy with location/flow.

 

You know I think that is really strange.

There a tons of tanks with large sps colonies and leathers. A smaller tank I might understand but a 90 gallon. Usually it's the sps that suffer.

Just to quell my curiosity, how long had you had this frag?

Got any crabs? Was anyone feeding the tank while you were gone?

 

I have not noticed any actual decay. But then again, I was out of town for 6 days. it seems to have shrunk a little since being home, but havent noticed decay or rotting of tissue.